AFTER THE WAR-WHAT?

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 9 March 1916, Page 3

AFTER THE WAR-WHAT?

DE. FITCHETT'S VI^W,

Theke seems to be a general impression that after the war the world will suffer a period of great depression, if not of positive privation, during which we shall , have to pay all the accumulated bills of the war. It is, therefore, quite a relief to find a writer like Dr. Fitchett, in the March number of "Life," taking the optimistic view and arguing that when the black night of actual jwar is over, a new day of prosperity will come in. It is impossible to re-produce here the arguments and figures quoted,, but the final sentence sums up the optimism of this really valuable contribution to the war literature. '• It is unthinkable that with such a preponderance of men, wealth and commercial power on the side of law and democracy, the small minority of lawlessness and autocracy can triumph. It is equally self-evident that the success of the Allies means a great expansion in the world's trade/ The impression oonveyed by a glance through this March issue ,of '-'Life" is that the reader is securing a wide and compiehensive view of the whole area of the war, Dr. Fitchett himself deals with the general aspect in " The History of the Month." Garlyle Smith concludes his series of sketches from the war zone with an article that should stimulate recruiting. Boyd Cable, Charles Nuttall, W. A. Somerset, Charles Barrett, Vance Palmer, and Frederick Villiers are amongst the other contributors of special articles to this fine numbers If unobtainable locally, a 3,/6 postal note sent to T. Shaw Fitchett, Swanstan Street, Melbourne, vvill ' bring the magazine by post for sis months,